Meaning of bicommunalism | Babel Free

Definitions

A societal organization the divides a single population into two distinct communities that may have conflicting interests.

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“The pre-1960 era conceptualization of bicommunalism characterized the Canadian polity as consisting of a French-Canadian nation located largely in Quebec, but with a substantial component located in other provinces and territories, and the English-Canadian nation located largely outside Quebec.”

“Within this framework, jasmine came to represent a city that before its division had been multicultural, as well as a call for a re-valuing of local identities in the face of the divisive nationalisms of the "motherlands." It was, then, easy enough for the Jasmine Revolution to be translated into a semblance of bicommunalism.”

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